The residents of the cowboy town of Elko, Nevada have a massive secret in their backyard. It’s called the Ruby Mountains Wilderness. Just 30 minutes southeast of Elko, rising from northeastern ...

Looking up at elevated points in Nevada's Ruby Mountains - Miss Annabelle/Shutterstock To the uninitiated, it might seem like Nevada and Switzerland have very little in common. After all, one of them ...

The Biden administration proposed two rounds of new environmental protections for sites in the Western U.S. on Monday, beginning a process that would extend into the forthcoming Trump administration.

It's fitting that, in one of America's driest states, one of its most beautiful features was shaped by water, even if that ...

The Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada offer high-elevation landscapes. Hiking into Liberty Lake requires crossing a pass at 10,450 feet, and an opportunity to see five alpine lakes. The Ruby Crest ...